Services for Educators

Contact: Deb Williamson

Regional School Consortium Youth Leadership Project connects schools and youth leaders.

Drawing on over 50 years of youth leadership development programming in metro Detroit the Michigan Roundtable has developed the Regional School Consortium Youth Leadership Project.  Nineteen schools will participate in a year-long program that will allow teams of student leaders to receive training and engage in dialogue with other students about issues and topics of importance to high school teens today.   The program kicked off in July when the Michigan Roundtable Interns facilitated a 3 day retreat during which students worked on school team building, consortium community building and identifying the objectives and goals they would like to meet as part of this program over the next school year.   The retreat took place at the Lake Huron Retreat Center and was attended by representatives from:

• Cody High School
• Detroit Institute of Technology High School
• Medicine and Community Health Academy
• Academy of Critical Thinkers 
• Academy of Public Leadership       
• Roeper  Upper School
• St. Clair Shores (Lakeview, Lakeshore, South Lake)
• Center for Advanced Studies and the Arts, (a consortium of Berkley, Clawson, Ferndale, Lamphere, Madison, and Oak Park High Schools)
• Walled Lake Western, Northern and Central High Schools
• Birmingham Groves

Throughout the school year the youth leaders will join together for a series of 4  Youth Leadership Summits, each with a different theme and workshops focusing both on diversity & inclusion content as well as skills development. With support from Michigan Roundtable Regional Youth Interns, schools will develop a leadership teamthat uses the content and skills gained from the Regional Youth Leadership Consortium to address issues of diversity and inclusion in their school and surrounding community.